Great news! Claim your SACE Continuing Professional Development Points for badges you’ve earned on the Microsoft Educator Community
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
All South African teachers are expected to keep a Professional Development Portfolio (PDP) as a personal record of their professional development journeys, and to achieve at least 150 South African Council of Educator Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD) development points every three-year cycle.
SchoolNet SA is an approved SACE professional development provider and has been accredited by SACE to award continuing professional development points for certain ac...Read more
The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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If you teach in the Johannesburg or Cape Town area, Microsoft and Computers4Kids are excited to invite you to a free, hands-on experience of Minecraft: Education Edition. Minecraft: Education Edition is already transforming classroom learning all over the world and these hands-on experiences will give you a taste of what this is all about.
What is Minecraft: Education Edition?
Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE) is a version of the popular open world game, Minecraft, specifically designed for educati...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers https://goo.gl/7V4DSD. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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This is a guest post featuring Dominique Cave (@dominiquecave), the only Minecraft Certified Educator currently in South Africa. Dominique is a teacher with 23 years of classroom experience, teaching students from pre-school age to Year 13. Her experience has been largely in international schools – she has worked in the UK, Swaziland, Malaysia, Dubai and Kenya. Most recently she was Director of ICT at Hillcrest International schools in Nairobi. Since giving up full time teaching, she has been working f...
In a webinar this week presented by MIEExpert and Microsoft Ambassador, Ronelle Klinck, () we heard about the partnership offer from Microsoft amd 2Enable in SA and their unbelievable free gift to all South African learners. They have called this offer Mahala.
What is Mahala?
Microsoft South Africa and 2Enable are partnering up to offer all South African school learners (ages 8 – 25 years) free access to Microsoft Office across all your devices as well as 1TB of OneDrive. It is obtained through s...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers https://goo.gl/rSnmx3 (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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On Thursday afternoon 11 May at 3:30pm we held a free SchoolNet webinar entitled We are ‘A Roadmap for Teacher Professional Development’ Our speaker was Ronelle Klinck, a MIEExpert from Johannesburg and a Teacher Ambassador with Microsoft South Africa. Ronelle has always been passionate about developing teachers and helping them work toward reaching their goals.She gave us some pointers for teacher professional development as noted in the webinar description below.
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Today I had the problem of uploading a video that had sound
problems to YouTube. There had been some loss of Internet connectivity during
the recording of the video and I wanted to delete those blank spaces from the video. Normally I would have used Windows Live Movie Maker but Windows 10 no longer supports Windows Live Movie Maker (oh how I miss that program). I decided to try
uploading the problematic video to YouTube first and then use the YouTube video
editor to a...
